The Struggle for Land: A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day - Couverture souple

Foweraker, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521526000 ISBN 13 : 9780521526005

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

A 'regional' political economy which makes its own contribution to the theory of the state.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become locked in an increasingly bitter struggle for land. In his book, Joe Foweraker draws on extensive empirical research to demonstrate the dimensions and dynamics of the struggle. It is his contention that the process can only be understood in relation to the patterns of economic accumulation in the national society and to the typical forms of political intervention on the frontier. In this way the argument moves beyond descriptive, moral or realpolitik explanations of the political violence and bureaucratic malpractice on the frontier, and integrates these elements into a theoretical account of accumulation and class struggle on the frontier, and of the characteristic mediations of this struggle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521526000
• ISBN 13: 9780521526005
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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